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glib2.0, pcre3 — security advisory
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.
- Products
- glib2.0, pcre3
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.14.3-1, 6.7-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2006-7225
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (error or crash) via a regular expression that involves a "malformed POSIX character class", as demonstrated via an invalid character after a [[ sequence.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2006-7225
glib2.0
Fixed versions: 2.14.3-1
glib2.0
Fixed versions: 2.14.3-1
glib2.0
Fixed versions: 2.14.3-1
pcre3
Fixed versions: 6.7-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-22T23:47:27.708337096Z",
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